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Luke - Is this going to be a limited time offer on this frame or are you going to add this to your product line permanently?

Completely depends on how long I have to sit on parts. If I can cover upfront costs as in tooling, materials and design time and perhaps make a few dollars it is easier for me to sit on inventory. What sucks is when people beg me to make parts and I end up not selling a single one, not even to the people that beg me to make them. I can think of at least 5 parts that people were begging for that I have been sitting on for years, one in particular I have not sold a single unit of. A stock item solely depends on you guys.

Completely depends on how long I have to sit on parts. If I can cover upfront costs as in tooling, materials and design time and perhaps make a few dollars it is easier for me to sit on inventory. What sucks is when people beg me to make parts and I end up not selling a single one, not even to the people that beg me to make them. I can think of at least 5 parts that people were begging for that I have been sitting on for years, one in particular I have not sold a single unit of. A stock item solely depends on you guys.

Thanks Luke! Yeah, I can see that could get pretty annoying. I'm going to try to sell a couple of my stuff and pick up a couple of these frames. Hope to see these added to your lineup for keeps.

Looking forward to the quote from BE's anno guy if something gets worked out. If not, how much do folks look at for getting something like this anno'd a simple gloss black?

Seems like going price is about $10 or so per piece, but most places seem to have a minimum so I think its why BE is looking into a group deal. If it fall through, contact a couple of ano guys and see fi they will work you a deal to fit it in with someone elses parts. If you are going with a common dust or polished black, they may be able to put the frame in with some other parts they are running in the same color. Might be a little harder to do if you are wanting something red, blue etc.

Fuzzy and a tad arrogant at the same time, but so far I'm real happy with the frame(s) and various parts design, and very happy with the machining as a whole.
There is one very small area that is still bugging me, but I'm spent many hours trying various tooling and tool paths (Not to mention $ for tooling) trying to perfect it and I can only get as close to 90% satisfied. It's not a function issue, I just know it's there.

Fuzzy and a tad arrogant at the same time, but so far I'm real happy with the frame(s) and various parts design, and very happy with the machining as a whole.
There is one very small area that is still bugging me, but I'm spent many hours trying various tooling and tool paths (Not to mention $ for tooling) trying to perfect it and I can only get as close to 90% satisfied. It's not a function issue, I just know it's there.

PS, sometimes I'm not thrilled with something I machine out and then a customer looks at it and they are jaw dropped happy. machinists are just too picky with stuff because in our world, .001" is a big deal

PPS, one of my cylinder heads was used in a magazine advertisement and I spent almost 2 hours setting up the head where it would look awesome but incomplete. turned out pretty good.